{"id":239,"date":"2009-05-05T10:00:10","date_gmt":"2009-05-05T15:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/?p=239"},"modified":"2009-10-09T08:47:32","modified_gmt":"2009-10-09T13:47:32","slug":"the-founding-of-wessyngton-plantation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/the-founding-of-wessyngton-plantation\/","title":{"rendered":"The Founding of Wessyngton Plantation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_284\" style=\"width: 253px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-284\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-284\" title=\"1785-land-grant-to-moses-winters\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/1785-land-grant-to-moses-winters-243x300.jpg\" alt=\"1785 Land Grant to Moses Winters\" width=\"243\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/1785-land-grant-to-moses-winters-243x300.jpg 243w, http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/1785-land-grant-to-moses-winters.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 243px) 100vw, 243px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-284\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">1785 Land Grant to Moses Winters<\/p><\/div>\n<p>{Deed}<\/p>\n<p>Stories of the founding of Wessyngton Plantation have been passed down through generations of the Washington family.\u00a0 These stories were corroborated by deeds and other documents I found in the Washington Family Papers in the Tennessee State Library and Archives in Nashville.\u00a0 In this deed, we learn that Moses Winters was granted 640 acres of land for military service in the Revolutionary War. Joseph Washington later bought this land which became part of the Wessyngton estate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Deed} Stories of the founding of Wessyngton Plantation have been passed down through generations of the Washington family.\u00a0 These stories were corroborated by deeds and other documents I found in the Washington Family Papers in the Tennessee State Library and Archives in Nashville.\u00a0 In this deed, we learn that Moses Winters was granted 640 acres [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21,18,20,22,1],"tags":[100,97,34,120,119,121,112,23,122],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":486,"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions\/486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}